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I have an instance that I created just for testing the software. It's not being used. In fact, since it's for testing only, it's not even federated (federation turned off) because I don't want to inflict my testing on anyone else. Also, the URL is not published anywhere. Since it's just for testing, I had it with open registrations. A couple of days ago I woke up to find twenty new accounts. Somehow spammers got to it (again, no federation, URL unpublished anywhere). My theory is that since it was lemmy. that they were trying that kind of subdomain randomly. Anyway, manually removing 20 accounts from Lemmy is a pain. Moderation tools in Lemmy are severely lacking yet. I mean, it's alpha software, we know it's still a work in progress, so some issues like this are to be expected. But my point is that they shouldn't be removing the very few tools to prevent spammers that instance admins have.

Seconded Flashpoint. I've had success with that game with people from 8 to like 80.

Saturday was our twice a month large meetup. Went with the kids for the first couple of hours, and we played:

• Dodo. The kids love this. It's really simple, just be fast and remember position of the tokens, and that's it. But it's a lot of fun watching that ball roll slowly towards disaster.
• Team3. Interesting communication game, we discovered that if the 8 year old gives spoken instructions to the 5 year old tempers can get a little hot. All other combinations worked well, it was just that one that didn't.
• Stella. My 8 year old loves it, but the 5 year old still isn't fully ready. She has issues with mapping the cards to her pad. Still, by the fourth round things went much smoother.

Then the kids went home with mom and I got to play a couple of heavier titles:

• Pax Pamir 2nd Edition. First time playing. I expected this to be good, but it was still much more fun than I expected. The rules seem a little dry, like you're just moving stuff around, and all the theme will be all condensed in the card text. But then you play it and everything feels very thematic. I'm pretty sure we played it extremely wrong (in the strategy sense, I think rules were fine), but still had a blast. And I think it would probably work better with at least one more player (we played a three player game)
• Beyond the Sun with expansion. I love this game. First time playing with the expansion (the other two players were also first timers, one was also a first time BTS player). I really liked the leaders cards. Also, it was a weird game, in that there was no achievement token in either Empire or Trascendence. One player had the leader that gives you a private achievement, and he completed that, plus the other two achievements that were drawn (4 strength in three locations, fully empty a single disc track), that meant three and triggered game end. He was the second player, and I was the third player, so I maneuvered to be able to colonize a fourth system, while at the same time denying player 2 the ability to do so in two of the systems he had a majority in. Player 1 had nothing to earn him more points than maneuvering over the map, so he did that, and he couldn't prevent me from colonizing (I had two possible targets and he didn't have enough ships/jumps), so he prevented player 2 from doing so, since that was a 9 point difference (5 from the planet, 4 from the achievement). Player 2 had his turn busted, so he instead prevented me from colonizing. My last turn was also maneuvering on the map, so nobody got their fourth system, and the achievement stayed empty. And for techs, there wasn't even a single level three tech researched. The leaders do push you to play more on the map board, plus only a single guild came up, and I chose the terraforming one because others were better prepared to take advantage of the research action. And only a single level 2 tech that could research level three was drawn, but again, it was discarded. So that was it, no level three techs, so of course no level four either. Scores were quite lower than we've seen other times, too: 36/32/31. Anyway, definitely the highlight of the night, and as usual after playing BTS I'm left wanting to play more.

The reason is that Meta is an extremely harmful company. They've enabled the worst kind of people in their pursuit of "engagement". It's no exaggeration to say that Facebook enabled a genocide. So if people are (correctly) quick to block instances where fascists congregate, why would Meta be treated any differently just because they have a ton of users? They enable fascists, they provide them with a platform. And now they want to bring that platform to the Fediverse, which has been a place that has traditionally been anti fascist.

And that's just assuming they'll be good citizens and won't do an embrace, extend, extinguish thing, which we all know they will do whenever they feel secure enough in their position to do it. So rather than waiting until Meta is already integrated and it's harder to do it, the idea behind all this is to prevent the issue from coming up in the first place.

I don't think this is too bad, but the question here is why they set it up this way. Are there any restrictions like no SSH? Also, this would make it hard to clone from an off site location (for remote work).

No, the Fediverse isn't free of crypto bullshit either.

En una noticia anterior decía que el plan sería expropiar terrenos en El Pinar y Ciudad Vieja.

Bueno, pero el valor se puede empezar a ver desde antes si lo hacés por etapas. Ponele que hacés el tranvía desde Plaza Independencia al obelisco, ya es terrible tramo que ayuda. Y de ahí lo vas extendiendo por Avenida Italia de a pedazos hasta llegar al peaje.

Claro que no me queda claro si es viable eso por el tema del espacio que piden para almacén de tranvías y talleres.

Ciudad de la Costa, Gianattasio a la altura de km 18 está imposible. Tuve que manejar por ahí y no veía los semáforos a una cuadra.

Nice, thanks! Subscribed.

That's a change that I noticed going from Twitter to Mastodon, and it's that the drama in the Fediverse is just way more fun to look at, because it's drama between instances and not drama between people. Like, in Twitter you'd see tons of bullying and people being shitty to other people. In Mastodon (and the rest of the Fediverse) the drama is between instances, and that means less personal stuff (less, not none).

So ultimately I sold it (to another person in that same group ;-) )

That sounds like an ideal outcome, since you still get to play it.